For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $49 million multistate settlement and an agreement in principle with biotechnology company Progenity Inc., to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently billed federal health care programs for prenatal tests and provided kickbacks to physicians to […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the Trump administration to immediately restore the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the primary authority and source of information about the nation’s public health data. The federal government created a new reporting structure […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, July 24, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for once again attempting to illegally politicize the 2020 census and deny North Carolinians fair representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The lawsuit is a response to a memo […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, July 24, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that the North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, convened by Gov. Roy Cooper and co-chaired by Justice Anita Earls and the attorney general, adopted three recommendations today. Those include a duty to intervene […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 23, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice Convenes First Public Comment Session (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls, co-chairs of the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, today announced the […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 23, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein obtained preliminary injunctions against Chapel Hill contractor Jorge Alberto Garcia, his company JH Home Improvements Inc., and his wife Helen Smith Flores, preventing the defendants from contacting any customers, performing home repair and home improvement work, and collecting […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that Tony Garrett Taylor was sentenced to 96 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release by the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina for stealing more than $6.1 million […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein this week filed two lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s rollbacks of decades of environmental protections under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act that would harm North Carolinians’ health and North […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, July 20, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to stop a new Trump Administration rule that makes it easier for health care providers and insurance companies to discriminate against certain vulnerable and protected classes […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 16, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released a statement in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)’s decision to reject a petition that would have ended state net metering programs. These programs allow homeowners to install solar panels and sell back to […]